The height of the entablature in relation to the column supporting it varies with the three orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, but in Roman and Renaissance interpretations it is generally about one fourth the column height.

The entablature's component members are the architrave, which rests directly upon the abacus, or top member of the column cap; the frieze ; and the cornice, or topmost member.

Essentially the entablature is a development from the primitive lintel, which spans two posts and supports the ends of the roof rafters.

It usually consists of three members, the architrave (the supporting member carried from column to column, pier or wall); the frieze (the decorative member); and the cornice (the projecting and protective member).

Sometimes the frieze is omitted, as in the entablature of the portico of the caryatides of the Erechtheum.

There is every reason to believe that the frieze did not exist in the archaic temple of Diana at Ephesus; and it is not found in the Lycian tombs, which are reproductions in the rock of timber structures based on early Ionian work.

In this usage, the entablature is usually found associated with a collonade, a zone of broader, more regularly oriented columns that is typically located at the base of the flow.

The entablature is thought to cool more rapidly due to convection meteoric water (rain/melt/stream) that has penetrated the surface of the flow.

While it may be assumed that an irregular orientation reflects cooling associated with the presence of water, some authors use this term when referring to zones of horizontal joints that may simply reflect non-horizontal cooling surfaces (see "cordwood").

Interestingly, contrary to the most common practice, the downstairs windows have been reduced in height to match that of the upstairs windows, which have to be limited in height to permit use of the entablature without disproportionately heightening the facade.

Although this house has no entablature below the main-roof cornice (brick Greek Revival houses often don't), and the portico columns are Tuscan, the moderate-slope roofline with wide overhangs and prominent cornice returns, and the 19th-century six-over-six windows, mark it as period Greek Revival.

Although pilasters are present, a deep entablature is not (unusual in a frame Greek revival house).

The frieze of the entablature, added to the building in 1855 when it was "modernized" in the Greek Revival style, was formed from the doors of the original box pews, which were replaced at that renovation with the current style of open bench pews.

The entablature of the main block continues on the sides and front of the pavilion to form the base of the pavilion's pediment.

Rather than an entablature stretching across all three bays, as is the case now, the doors were framed by plain pilasters carrying a full entablature hood, that is, only above the doors.

The entablature consists of three horizontal layers, all of which are visually separated from each other using moldings or bands.

In Roman and post-Renaissance work, the entablature may be carried from column to column in the form of an arch that springs from the column that bears its weight, retaining its divisions and sculptural enrichment, if any.

Above the capital is a square abacus connecting the capital to the entablature.

The entablature is the beam at the top and a classically correct entablature has three layers.

Above that, the fascia was originally a wooden plank covering the ends of the roof joists laid on the beam.The top layer, the cornice, represents the ornately carved moulding that fills in the gap under the roof tiles.

Chester Terrace is particularly grand, the longest unbroken terrace in the park.

It is divided into three parts: the architrave (the supporting member carried from column to column); the frieze (the decorative portion); and the cornice (the crowning and projecting member).

Each of the orders has its appropriate entablature, of which both the general height and the subdivisions are regulated by a scale of proportion derived from the diameter of the column.

It is occasionally used to complete, architecturally, the upper portion of a wall, even when there are no columns, and in the case of pilasters or detached or engaged columns is sometimes profiled round them.

A column with its base and capital, together with the entablature which it supports.

The Greek orders are Doric, distinguished by a capital consisting of a plain curved molding, triglyph in the frieze, and the absence of a base; Ionic with its scroll-like capital; and Corinthian, in which the capital consists of stylized acanthus leaves.

Gutzon Borglum, the genius and drive behind the Mount Rushmore sculpture in the Black Hills of South Dakota, made particularly famous by Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, starring Carry Grant and Eva St. Marie, wanted to include an entablature to be placed alongside the presidents.

It was to have been inscribed with a brief history of the United States.

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